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Offline SamirD

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Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« on: Sun, 11 October 2015, 21:18:11 »
http://nh.craigslist.org/sys/5219588284.html

The seller is willing to part with the Unicomp alone for just $20!  I'd be all over that if I was local.

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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 11 October 2015, 21:21:02 »
Wow, that is nice! and cheap!

Somebody in the NE region needs to take a road trip.
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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 11 October 2015, 21:51:58 »
Yep!  I thought it would help someone out that wanted one.  I know I would have grabbed it if it was local.

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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 12 October 2015, 05:08:55 »
Ironic that he went out of his way to build a quiet computer, and pairs it with a buckling spring keyboard :))
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 12 October 2015, 07:43:40 »
I never understood the 'quiet' computer thing.  If I wanted to work in silence, pen and paper has always been quiet.  Efficiency has its price.

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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 12 October 2015, 18:50:02 »
Ironic that he went out of his way to build a quiet computer, and pairs it with a buckling spring keyboard :))

You get a quiet computer so you can better enjoy the blissful noise of buckling spring in all its glory.


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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 12 October 2015, 20:57:49 »
Ironic that he went out of his way to build a quiet computer, and pairs it with a buckling spring keyboard :))

You get a quiet computer so you can better enjoy the blissful noise of buckling spring in all its glory.

:))
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 12 October 2015, 23:22:49 »
Ironic that he went out of his way to build a quiet computer, and pairs it with a buckling spring keyboard :))

You get a quiet computer so you can better enjoy the blissful noise of buckling spring in all its glory.
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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 14 October 2015, 04:22:14 »
I emailed him as soon as I saw this, but he never replied, so I guess he sold it.
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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 14 October 2015, 18:42:26 »
I emailed him as soon as I saw this, but he never replied, so I guess he sold it.
Bummer, but I didn't think it would have lasted that long either.


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Re: Unicomp for $20 (new hampshire)
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 16 October 2015, 20:39:36 »
I emailed him as soon as I saw this, but he never replied, so I guess he sold it.

I'll try again since I live close by.